Bracket for fire-works



(No Model.)

0. H. KOSTER.

BRACKET FOR FIRE WORKS.

No. 364,263. Patented June '7, 1887;

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. KOSTER, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE UNEXOELLED FIRE XVORKS COMPANY, OF KINGS COUNTY, NElV YORK.

BRACKET FOR FIRE-WORKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0.364,263, dated June '7, 1887.

Appllcation filed March 12, 1887. Serial No. 230,716. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. Kosrnn, of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Brackets for Attaching Fireorks on the hibition Posts or Frames, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a bracket-piece of wood adapted to be readily nailed to the exro hibition post or frame, and having notched metalholding-plates projecting from the edges, together with cross'plates attached to the back of the base or stock of the exhibition-piece of fire-works and adapted to drop into the notches,

I5 and thus hook onto the holding-plates and form a more substantial and efficient attaching device, and at the same time not being more expensive than su h as are now in use, all as hereinafter fully described, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in

which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the bracketpiece nailed to the exhibition-post. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a short section of the base or stock of the exhibition-piece of fireworks, having the cross-plates attached for connection to the bracket-piece. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the bracket-piece and of the section of the base or stock of the fireworks piece as they are connected on the exhibition post or frame. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the bracketpiece, and Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of the sec tion of the stock of the fire-works piece having the cross-bars to connect it with the bracketpiece. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the stock of the exhibition-piece attached to the bracket. Fig. 71's a side elevation of the bracket and the stock of the exhibitioirpiece attached to a post, on an enlarged scale. Fig. 8 is an cleva tion of an exhibitionpiece of fire-works, with the cross-plates attached as for mounting on the bracket. Fig. 9 is a top view of the bracket.

The various forms of exhibition-pieces of tireworks, as A, have a base-piece or stock, a, consisting ofa vertical bar ofwood, of suitable dimensions, for the support of branches and other parts making up the whole piece, the size of the bar varying according to the size and complexity of the piece. At a suitable point along this base-piece and on one side I attach two readily removed.

crossplates, b, of thin metal a suitable distance apart and parallel to each other, and being a little longer than the width of the bar to project a little beyond each edge, said plates being attached either on the surface of the bar or in slight gains or notches flush with the surface. Then I make a bracket-piece, c, consisting of a short bar of wood equal in width to that ofthe base-picce,and fitit with the notched holding-arms d, projecting from each edge at right angles to the front and near each end of the bracketpiece, the notches being in the upper edges of the arms and flush with the front surface of the brackctpiece, so that by placing the base-piece a against the front of the bracket-piece, with the cross-plates over the arms, and letting the base-piece drop the crossplates will drop into the notches, and the exhibitioirpiece will thereby be firmly attached to the postj or frame, the bracket-piece hav- 7Q ing been nailed thereto, and by lifting the cf;- hibition-piece so as to raise the cross-plates above the notched arms the piece will be as At the same time the holding is very substantial, by reason of the hind 7 5 ing of the crossplatcs each side of the basepieee firmly to the surface of the bracket-piece by the draw of the cross-plates thereto by the inclines of the notches.

The notched arms may consistof separate 3 plates nailed on the edges of the bracket-piece; but I prefer to form the two arms of each pair on the projecting portions of a single plate, 9, placed across the back of the bracket-piece and bent around the edges as I have represented 8 5 them in the drawings. These exhibition-pieces have frequently to be taken down and be remounted several times for protection from rain when the weather is unfavorable, and sometimes have to be removed in great haste for protection from sudden showers, which renders it of the greatest importance to have sub stantial and yet cheap mounting devices of the most ready action.

To facilitate the inserting of the base-piece and so'that the upper cross-plate will not lodge ICO on the top of the bracket-piece c, I taper the upper corner, f, of the latter.

1f the cross-plates are to be nailed directly on the surface of the base-piece, the bracketpiece may be made as much thinner as the thickness of said plates where they bear against the bracket-piece, so that the surfaces of said pieces will bear together elsewhere, as is represented by the bracket-piece in Fig. 3.

WVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In apparatus for mounting'fire-works for exhibition, the combination, with the base or stock a of the exhibition-piece of fire -wo1l s having the cross-plates b, of the bracket-piece 0, having the notched arms cl, adapted to embrace the edges of stock a and to receive the projecting ends of the crossplates, said bracket-pieee being attached to a post with the notches of the arms upward, substantially as described.

2. In apparatus for mounting fireworks for exhibition, the braeketpieee 0, having the notched arms projecting frontward from its edges andbeing bent outward or widened at the ends, in combination with the base-piece having the cross-plates, with projecting ends adapted to engage the notches of the arms, sub stantially as described.

CHARLES H. ROSTER. 

